We successfully tested a new automated report generator this past weekend at the IMSA Continental Tire 150 at the Glen. Drivers can look at their lap time distributions and compare them relative to the session’s fastest driver. Below is a sample of the lap times from the GS class drivers in the Continental Tire SportsCar…
Andrew Aquilante and Jeff Feit studying live P1TS information during practice. What is it that draws us to racing or creating software? After returning from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this past weekend with Phoenix American Motorsports, I reflected on this. Race Cars On magazine pages, websites, and in the paddock they are sleek, caged animals at rest.…
Overview The P1TS software system receives raw IMSA trackside timing and scoring data and transforms it to information assisting race teams with real-time race strategy. Recent enhancements to the (beta) software increased network traffic resulting in network time outs. This post describes the system and how it was resolved by configuring the web server with…
Being both a motorsports fan and developer of cloud computing software, I was intrigued by Microsoft’s TV cloud computing advertisements for the Lotus F1 Team. I searched for articles about F1 and cloud computing and found Formula 1 is artificially restricting the use of cloud compute. “One of the biggest challenges during an F1 race…
This TEDX talk from McLaren Electronics’s Peter van Manen describes how a Formula 1 car sends hundreds of millions of data points to its garage for real-time analysis and feedback and how they used this detailed data approach to monitor children at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. So what we did is we took a data system…
Since you’re reading P1Software engineering, you’ll probably find this post interesting. It describes Red Bull Racing’s F1 team’s use of data. Some 100 gigabytes of data goes into winning a race Each car is fitted with around 100 sensors throughout the vehicle Data from the race site, wherever it is in the world, also arrives…
Background P1Lapchart is a web application that dynamically renders pretty, and sometimes interactive, lap chart data that plots each car’s race position (y axis) by lap (x axis). It consists of a client component that does the rendering (the view in MVC) and a back end web service component that fetches the raw data from a separate web…
This Engineering section was created to discuss the various software engineering aspects of the P1Software.com applications. P1Software was created to express my intersecting interests in both motorsports and software. If you’re like minded, then you’ve come to the right place.